The Gains and Losses of Screen Relations: A Clinical Approach to Simulation Entrapment and Simulation Avoidance in a Case of Excessive Internet Pornography Use

Todd Essig, Ph.D., is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute and clinical assistant professor in psychiatry at New York Medical College. He founded and, for 16 years until it closed in 2009, was director of The Psychoanalytic Connection (www.psychoanalysis.net) where he became known as a pioneer in the innovative uses of information technologies for mental-health professionals. He is currently a contributor at Forbes where he writes “Managing Mental Wealth.” His clinical office is in New York City where he treats individuals and couples, almost all of whom come to his office.
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